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The SCOTUS giveth, and the SCOTUS taketh away . . . .
Last week, we were celebrating the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona's victory in the U.S. Supreme Court [.pdf] over the best efforts of Jan Brewer and her base to suppress the Indian vote. Even then, I suspected that it was a chimera, because I knew the Shelby County decision was in the offing - but I thought it better to hail a rare victory while we had the chance.
Sure enough, five members of the SCOTUS did not fail me: They did precisely as I knew four of them would (and was afraid that Kennedy would join in doing) and voted to gut the Voting Rights Act, which has serious implications for the franchise of not only African Americans but for all people of color, particularly Indians. If you missed it, Meteor Blades has a good encapsulation here.
In the meantime, yet another voting rights case is making its way through the federal court system. I've written previously about the Montana case of Wandering Medicine v. McCulloch, in which Montana Indian tribes have sued the state to force it comply with the Voting Rights Act by opening satellite voting locations to serve majority-Indian populations. The case is currently before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The parties have filed their briefs and are awaiting notice as to whether oral argument will be required. I suspect that the first notice they get will be instructions to resubmit briefs in light on the SCOTUS ruling in Shelby County.
Indian lawyers: Time to go back to the drawing board. Reanalyze the surviving law anew, with an eye toward formulating new arguments that will withstand post-Shelby analysis. [Yes, I know that it's not going to be sufficient; it still has to be done.]
Indian lawyers and everybody else: Time to go after Congress. Make them own this racist debacle. And then make them fix it.
RACIST ALITO CITES "ICWA TRUMP CARD" IN DECISION
TO KEEP INDIAN CHILD FROM HER BIOLOGICAL FAMILY
I wrote briefly about this case a few months ago, when it first made it onto the Supreme Court's docket.
In short, an unmarried young couple conceived a child during the course of their relationship, then broke up. There seems to be some dispute as to when, or even whether, the young woman told her former partner of the pregnancy; at any rate, he was deployed to Iraq at the time that she decided unilaterally to give the child up for adoption, and so unable to register his objections in person.
The child's biological mother is reportedly white and Latina. Her father is an enrolled Cherokee from Oklahoma. In other words, Baby Veronica is part Cherokee, and the tribe supports her father in wanting to bring her home as a member of their nation. In theory, the Indian Child Welfare Act [ICWA] exists to further such goals.
Not with this SCOTUS.
A great many words were expended to justify the majority's decision in the case. Among those words were "best interests of the child," "surrender of parental rights," and repeated resort to the phrase to "3/256 Cherokee" [a reference to Baby Veronica herself]. But perhaps the most outrageous statement - in an opinion overflowing with white privilege and sneering superiority - was Alito's choice bit of "card" racism:
"The Act would put certain vulnerable children at a great disadvantage solely because an ancestor – even a remote one – was an Indian. A biological Indian father could abandon his child in utero and refuse any support for the birth mother – perhaps contributing to the mother's decision to put the child up for adoption – and then could play his ICWA trump card at the eleventh hour to override the mother's decision and the child's best interest. If this were possible, many prospective adoptive parents would surely pause before adopting any child who might possibly qualify as an Indian under the ICWA."
Because, of course, to the likes of Sam Alito, our children's lives can be received to a card game - or, perhaps more accurately, pawns on a chess board in a game rigged to benefit non-Indians at the expense of Indian children and families.
Former South Dakota Senator James Abourezk, the father of the ICWA, is outraged:
"It’s an attack on tribal sovereignty through the children. I can’t believe they did this."
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Abourezk said he fears the Supreme Court’s refusal to uphold the tenet of ICWA could potentially set precedent leading to legal attacks on other aspects of tribal sovereignty.
"I think it probably would if somebody challenged those other parts,” he said. “This court is one of the worst Supreme Court we’ve ever had."
Senator Abourezk's opinion carries a great deal of weight in Indian Country. Several of us have written in the past about his recognition, more than thirty years ago, that Indian children will being stolen from the families in another form of genocide, and his subsequent to efforts to enact the ICWA to bring such practices to a halt. So when he expresses outrage, you can be sure that Native political and policy leaders are paying attention.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, the Lakota People's Law Project [LPLP] is also paying attention. For some time now, they've been working closely with South Dakota tribes to end the routine and ongoing child theft by the state and private industry in the service of racism and profit-seeking. They supported the tribes' efforts to organize May's summit with the Bureau of Indian Affairs [BIA] to address the matter, and are representing parties in ongoing litigation. Daniel Sheehan, lead attorney for LPLP, is hanging his hopes on Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent to provide a way to shore up the ICWA and tribal sovereignty:
[He was] persuaded by Justice Sotomayer’s dissenting opinion that an important goal of ICWA was ensuring tribes did not lose children to a dominant white society, and tribal parents do not lose the connection with their children even if they do not have custody of them.
The Supreme Court ruling, according to Sheehan, flouts the intent of Congress when it passed ICWA. The decision "is an attack on the sole mechanism the U.S. Congress designed to maintain the connection between the children and their tribe. It is the sole statute that exists. This is a frontal attack on the very purpose of ICWA."
Mr. Sheehan notes that Bryan Brewer, tribal chair of the Oglala Sioux Nation at Pine Ridge, has been very vocal in demanding that the federal government address the problem of stolen Indian children, which has reached crisis proportions among tribes in their area. Mr. Brewer recently wrote bluntly to the BIA:
"We Sioux tribes constitute a sovereign nation, and we must assert ourselves when it comes to foster care and adoption policy," Brewer wrote.
"The Oglala Sioux Tribe ... is very eager to develop a direct relationship with the federal government when it comes to the provision of foster care services for our children."
Exactly, Sheehan said.
"The solution to this hostile attitude toward the basic intent of ICWA is to give direct federal funding to the individual tribes to set up their own foster care, with adequate oversight, and get the state completely out of it," he said.
He predicts all nine South Dakota tribes will adopt such a stand at a meeting July 8-10.
The Lakota People's Law Project is registered organizationally as a member of Daily Kos. The group will undoubtedly have more information about this case and others like it in the weeks to come, as well as action items about next month's meeting and other efforts aimed at strengthening the ICWA. As such information becomes available, I'll post it here. They - we - will need your help.
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More "This Week In American Indian News" and Latest Updates on Kossack Regional Meet-Up News Below the Frybead Thingey
DOJ FREEZES FUNDS FOR BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA FOR MISUSE OF FUNDS, SOME EARMARKED FOR INDIAN KIDS
Following an audit conducted by the Department of Justice's Inspector General, the federal government has frozen all funds previously allocated to Big Brothers Big Sisters of America [BBBSA], the nonprofit organization whose mission [allegedly] is to mentor at-risk children and youth. The audit found that the organization had commingled taxpayer grant funds with its general fund, in violation of federal grant rules and sound fiduciary practices, and did not maintain the required documentation to ensure that funds were spent properly. The federal grant monies were earmarked specifically for programs targeting especially at-risk populations, including American Indian children, other children of color, children in military families, and children of incarcerated parents.
According to the DOJ report [.pdf]:
The performance goals associated with the grants we audited included: (1) maintaining BBBSA’s Native American Mentoring Initiative and fostering a deeper understanding of working with the American Indian and Alaskan Native tribal communities, (2) reducing the incidence of juvenile crime in 50 underserved local communities across the country by providing research- based local mentoring services to more than 13,725 newly identified high- risk and at-risk youth, and (3) expanding the Juvenile Justice Initiative to provide comprehensive mentoring services to at-risk and high-risk youth in 60 new underserved communities across the country including an increased focus on the children of military or deployed parents.
With regard to Native children specifically, the audit found that BBBSA hired an "Associate Director of Native American Mentoring," at a salary of more than $37,000, after receiving the DOJ grant monies, which the organization says were used to pay for the position. Federal grant guidelines require that monies be used only for purposes itemized in the approved grant proposal; if changes are needed, an amendment must be filed and approval obtained before such monies can be used for other purposes. In addition, BBBSA also hired a "consultant for Native American mentoring," who it paid at a rate of $3,875 per month, well in excess of the top approved rate of $450 per day. Worse, BBBSA could neither account for how it reached the $3,875 per month figure, nor for how the "consultant" spent his or her time or whether it was on actual, approved "Native American mentoring" program activities. Finally, the BBBSA could not account for how federal grant monies earmarked for Native American youth mentoring programs were spent, other than to establish that, as with the other monies, they were commingled with the organization's general fund.
According to the BBBSA Web site, the group's Director of Native American Mentoring is Ivy Wright-Bryan, who they describe as "a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute tribe in Nevada." What's unclear is whether she is one of the people for whose salary the grant funds in question were allocated. Also unclear is whether the unapproved "consultant" was actually, you know, Indian.
In an indication that the universe's irony meter has shattered into a million tiny jagged pieces, three days after this story broke, BBBSA issued a press release announcing that it had presented a lifetime achievement award to William "Bill" Hanna, former president and COO of Koch Industries.
Of course, a quick look at the organization's board of directors helps put the pieces back together to create a very clear picture.
The entire DOJ report (which covers more than merely the misuse of funds allocated for Native children's programs) can be read here [.pdf].
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PRESIDENT OBAMA ESTABLISHES WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL FOR NATIVE AFFAIRS
Last Wednesday, President Obama issued an executive order establishing the first White House Council on Native American Affairs. The Council will include the head of every Cabinet department, as well as numerous other executive-branch agencies, commissions, administrations, and other governmental bodies.
The text of the order itself is courageous, to say the least. It opens with full recognition of the "government-to-government relationship" that sovereignty and treaty agreements require. Section 1 of the order itself begins as follows:
Section 1. Policy. The United States recognizes a government-to-government relationship, as well as a unique legal and political relationship, with federally recognized tribes. This relationship is set forth in the Constitution of the United States, treaties, statutes, Executive Orders, administrative rules and regulations, and judicial decisions. Honoring these relationships and respecting the sovereignty of tribal nations is critical to advancing tribal self-determination and prosperity.
As we work together to forge a brighter future for all Americans, we cannot ignore a history of mistreatment and destructive policies that have hurt tribal communities. The United States seeks to continue restoring and healing relations with Native Americans and to strengthen its partnership with tribal governments, for our more recent history demonstrates that tribal self-determination -- the ability of tribal governments to determine how to build and sustain their own communities -- is necessary for successful and prospering communities. We further recognize that restoring tribal lands through appropriate means helps foster tribal self-determination.
This order establishes a national policy to ensure that the Federal Government engages in a true and lasting government-to-government relationship with federally recognized tribes in a more coordinated and effective manner, including by better carrying out its trust responsibilities. This policy is established as a means of promoting and sustaining prosperous and resilient tribal communities. Greater engagement and meaningful consultation with tribes is of paramount importance in developing any policies affecting tribal nations.
Words fail me. Well, almost. But I truly never thought I would live to see the day when an American President would put such words - nice words, yes, but blunt words, too - not merely in writing, but into practice as official administration policy. And reading the remainder of the order, it's clear that a great deal of thought and planning went into tis creation, including an obvious effort to make it simultaneously both inclusive and specific with regard to how policy is to be executed.
It's receiving praise throughout Indian Country, as well. Betty McCollum (D-MN) and Tom Cole (R-OK), co-chairs of the Congressional Native American Caucus, issued a joint statement endorsing it. The National Congress of American indians [NCAI] has likewise issued a statement applauding the President's action. NCAI president Jefferson Keel noted:
"President Obama’s Executive Order represents a very strong step forward to strengthen our nation-to-nation relationship. The Council has been a top priority of tribal leaders from the earliest days of the Obama Administration. It will increase respect for the trust responsibility and facilitate the efficient delivery of government services.
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We look forward to working with President Obama, Secretary Jewell, and other members of the Cabinet to ensure that the Council advances our nation-to-nation relationship and builds a prosperous future for generations to come.
Not everyone is happy, of course. There are, at present, no Indians on the Council, because its charter membership comprises the department heads outlined above. Section 3(a)(xxxi), however, provides a mechanism to remedy that: It provides that the Secretary of the Interior, who is the Council Chair, may also appoint members from "such other executive departments, agencies, and offices as the Chair may, from time to time, designate." And Interior Secretary Jewell took the first opportunity, the day after the order was issued, to go and speak to Indian Country about how better to ensure the proper function of this government-to-government relationship (see next story).
Based on their now very public commitments, I fully expect that Secretary Jewell and President Obama will appoint Indian members to the Council in short order. And if they do not, it's our job to push them until they do.
The full text of the executive order is available here.
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IN EMOTIONAL FIRST ADDRESS TO INDIAN COUNTRY, INTERIOR SECRETARY SALLY JEWELL PLEDGES "NATION-TO-NATION RELATIONSHIP"
Last Thursday, new Interior Secretary Sally Jewell delivered her first major speech to a Native audience before a meeting of the National Congress of American indians [NCAI] in Reno, Nevada.
Speaking before some 300 American Indian delegates, Secretary Jewell became, to use her own word, "emotional" as she addressed her new responsibilities:
"The federal government does not have a proud legacy when it comes to upholding our promises," said Jewell, her voice cracking. "I can't reverse all of that in a four-year period of time, but I can make important progress."
She vowed to be an advocate in the federal government for tribes, saying it is part of her job as secretary to help set them up for success for generations. She added President Barack Obama and former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar "opened a new chapter" in relations with Indian Country.
"I will keep that chapter open," Jewell said. "I will take it to the next level if I'm allowed to do that with your help."
More importantly, she openly acknowledged tribal sovereignty and affirmed the Obama Administration's commitment to adhering to the "government-to-government relationship" established under treaties that have never yet been fully honored:
"My North Star in supporting you will be promoting tribal self-governance and self-determination, recognizing the inherent right of tribal governments to make your own decisions," she said. "You know better than any of us do what you need in your tribes and in your communities."
According to Arlen Melendez, chair of the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, NCAI delegates seemed "very pleased," adding, "I think a lot of the tribes didn't really know who she was, but listening to her, I think they can be confident she's going to be really good for Indian Country." If the standing ovation delegates gave her at the conclusion of her speech is any indication, attendees are at least hopeful.
NCAI president Jefferson Keel expanded on Mr. Melendez's assessment:
"We believe that chapter — and that door — is wide open now and will lead to a new level of understanding in this nation-to-nation relationship."
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EAGLE STAFF AT DULUTH CIVIC CENTER DESECRATED. AGAIN.
For the third time in under two years, someone has desecrated an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) eagle staff planted on the grounds of the Duluth (MN) Civic Center.
Local tribal members planted the staff in November, 2011, during a rally at the center. In keeping with Anishinaabe tradition, the wooden staff bears feathers and ribbons for the four sacred directions.
The first act of desecration was committed shortly after the staff was first planted; tribal members returned it to its original spot. The second incident occurred in the fall of 2012, when the vandal or vandals not only removed it but broke it half. Local Anishinaabeg created a new staff made of virtually unbreakable ironwood, reattached the feathers and ribbons, and replanted it in the traditional way.
Then two weekends ago, it was pulled out of the ground once again, and cast aside into the bushes. City parks officials affirm that it was not done by their maintenance workers.
Duluth American Indian Commission member Gwiiwizens Ricky DeFoe noted that of everything on the Civic Center grounds, only the eagle staff seems to be a target:
"This is a symbol of the indigenous people," he said. "To have done that, it's like a public attack."
He noted that the nearby Soldiers and Sailors Memorial monument and American flag were untouched, while the American Indian symbol was targeted. He wondered why someone would be bothered enough about a staff to want to remove it.
"Why could something like that be so offensive?" he asked. "There is a lot of fear in America of 'the other.'"
Last Monday, Mr. DeFoe, Gabriel Peltier, and Sid Perrault replanted the staff ceremonially, accompanied by singing, prayers, and the burning of sage.
Mr. Peltier explained a bit of the spiritual kinship the Anishinaabeg feel for the staff:
Peltier said classes who visit the Civic Center to learn about the three buildings also visit the staff site to learn about Anishinaabe culture. Anishinaabe visit it because it means something to the people, he said.
"We will keep putting him up," Peltier said.
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Let's build communities!
Every region needs a meatspace community like SFKossacks.
We take care of each other in real life.
I urge YOU to take the lead and organize one in your region.
Please tell us about it if you do and we're here for advice.
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>>>Instructions on HOW TO FORM A NEW DAILY KOS GROUP
NEW GROUPS IN THE PROCESS OF ORGANIZING:
Send a Kosmail to the organizers and ask for an invitation to the group.
• Northern Indiana Area: Kosmail Tim Delaney
• Long Island: Kosmail grannycarol
• Northern Michigan: Kosmail JillS
• Nebraska: Kosmail Nebraska68847Dem
• Westburbia Chicago Kossacks: Kosmail Majordomo
• New York Hudson Valley Kossacks: Kosmail boran2
• North Carolina Triangle Kossacks: Kosmail highacidity
• Caprock Kossacks (Panhandle/Caprock/Lubbock/Amarillo area) : Kosmail shesaid
• West Texas Kossacks (including Big Bend Region and El Paso) : Kosmail Yo Bubba
• Northern Arizona Kossacks: Kosmail Sam Sara
Note to the above new leaders: Feel free to leave a comment any day reminding readers about your new group. Also, tell us about your progress in gathering members. Kosmail me when you've chosen a good name for your group and have created a the group. Then I'll move you to the NEW GROUPS LIST. When you've planned a date for your first event I'll make a banner for you to highlight your event in our diaries and your diaries.
These are the groups that have started since * NEW DAY * began. Please Kosmail navajo if you have started a group before that.
NEW GROUPS LIST:
• California Central Valley Kossacks - Formed: Jul 29, 2012, Organizer: tgypsy
• New England Kossacks - Formed: Aug 6, 2012, Organizers:
Clytemnestra for Lower New England (Conneticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island)
nhox42 for Upper New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont)
• Houston Area Kossacks - Formed: Aug 7, 2012, Organizer: Chrislove
• Kossacks in India - Formed: Aug 14, 2012, Organizer: chandu
• CenTex Kossacks - Formed: Sep 9, 2012, Organizer: papa monzano
• Central Ohio Kossacks - Formed: Sep 26, 2012, Organizer: VetGrl
• Kansas City Kossacks - Formed Oct 15, 2012, Organizer: [Founder stepped down]
• Phoenix Kossacks - Formed Oct 16, 2012, Organizer: arizonablue
• Chicago Kossacks - Formed: Oct 31, 2012, Organizer: figbash
• Koscadia the Pacific Northwest coast from Northern California to Alaska
- Formed Oct 17, 2012, Oganizer: Horace Boothroyd III based in Portland, OR
• Boston Kossacks - Formed: Nov 7, 2012, Organizer: GreyHawk
• Motor City Kossacks South East Michigan (Detroit) Area - Formed: Nov 10, 2012, Organizer: peregrine kate
• Pittsburgh Area Kossacks - Formed: Nov 12, 2012, Organizer: dweb8231
• Salt Lake City Kossacks - Formed: Nov 17, 2012, Organizer: War on Error
• Twin Cities Kossacks - Formed: Nov 17, 2012, Organizer: imonlylurking
• Dallas Kossacks North Texas - Formed: Nov 21, 2012, Organizer: Stepping down, chancew, please contact him if you'd like to step up. He'll change the groups' permissions for you.
• The Southern California Inland Empire Kossacks - Formed: Dec 3, 2012, Organizer: SoCaliana
• Los Angeles Kossacks - Formed: Dec 17, 2012, Organizer: Dave in Northridge
• Northeast Ohio Kossacks - Formed: Jan 16, 2013, Organizer: GenXangster
• Kansas & Missouri Kossacks - Formed: Jan 17, 2013, Organizer: tmservo433
• I-77 Carolina Kossacks who live from Columbia, SC to north of Winston-Salem, NC. - Formed: Jan 30, 2013, Organizers: gulfgal98 and eeff
• Indianapolis Kossacks - Formed: Feb 6, 2013, Organizer: CityLightsLover
• Southwest Ohio Kossacks - Formed: May 10, 2013, Organizer: Dr Erich Bloodaxe RN
ESTABLISHED GROUPS LIST: (List will grow as we discover them)
• SFKossacks Founded by navajo, Formed: May 2, 2005
• Maryland Kos Founded by timmyc, Formed: Feb 23, 2011. Contact: JamieG from Md for a group invite.
• New York City Founded by Eddie C - Contact the group organizer for meet-up events: sidnora
• Baja Arizona Kossacks, Event Organizer: Azazello
• Three Star Kossacks Tennessee, Founded by maryKK, Formed: Apr 8, 2011
• Nashville KosKats, Founded by ZenTrainer Formed: Jan 30, 2012
• Virginia Kos Founded by JamieG from Md, Formed: May 3, 2011
• Kos Georgia Founded by pat208, Formed: Feb 13, 2011
• Colorado COmmunity Founded by Leftcandid, Formed: Feb 13, 2011
• New Mexico Kossaks Founded by claude
• Philly Kos Founded by mconvente Formed: Aug 29, 2011
• DKos Florida Founded by ThirstyGator, Formed: Feb 14, 2011, Currently organizing: Kosmail Vetwife to be included in next event.
• Oklahoma Roundup Founded by BigOkie, Formed: Feb 13, 2011, Currently organizing: Kosmail peacearena to be included.
• DKos Asheville Founded by davehouck, Formed: Feb 13, 2011 - Organizing Assist by: randallt
:: Events Currently on the Books for ALL Kossacks ::
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Sunday, July 7th
Chicago Kossacks Go to a Ballgame!
TIME: 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Fifth Third Bank Ball Park
34W002 Cherry Lane • Geneva
ORGANIZER: Send NormAl1792 a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. NormAl1792
2. figbash
3. broths
4. Mr. broths
5-10. edwardssl & her family
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Maybees:
winifred3
luvweasel
Jennifer Clare
luvsathoroughbred
Mr. luvs
ScottyUrb
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Latest diary: Chicago(land) Kossacks Meet-Up July 7: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
New York Hudson Valley Kossacks
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boran2
Saturday, July 13th
NY Hudson Valley Kossacks' First Meet-up
TIME: NOON
LOCATION: Hudson House
2 Main Street • Cold Spring, NY
ORGANIZER: Send boran2 a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. boran2
2. thankgodforairamerica
3. betson08
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Maybees:
ask
curly
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Latest diary: [Coming soon!]
Thursday, July 18th
Phoenix Kossacks Meet-up for navajo
TIME: 6:30 PM
LOCATION: Rancho de Tia Rosa
3129 E. McKellips • Mesa
ORGANIZER: Send arizonablue a kosmail to attend.
navajo's in town one day, even though it's a Thursday we hope you can make it.
RSVPs:
1. arizonablue
2. Mr. arizonablue
3. navajo
4. Azazello
5. Mrs. Azazello
6. ninothemindboggler
7. Mrs. ninothemindboggler
8. thomask
9. mrs. thomask
10. BluejayRN
11. Late Again
12. Mother Mags
13. Kane in CA
14. puzzled
15. mexchewy
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Maybees:
Kane in CA
Kane in CA friend
cosmic debris
PSzymeczek
Mr PSzymeczek
Mr. Late Again
dewey in the desert
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Latest diary: Phoenix Kossacks Meetup: Welcome Navajo to The Valley of the Sun!
Saturday, July 20th
Dkos Asheville, North Carolina Kossacks Meet-up
TIME: 1:00 PM
LOCATION: The Bywater
796 Riverside Dr. • Asheville
ORGANIZER: Send randallt a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. Randallt
2. Gordon20024
3. davehouck
4. Joieau
5. SteelerGrrl
6. SteelerGuy
7. Captain Sham
8. Smiley7
9. DawnN
10. Phil S 33
11. LamontCranston
12. Christian Dem in NC
13.
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Maybees:
eeff
Audri
gulfgal98
PearlJamSteelworker
Amy
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Latest diary: DKos Asheville Open Thread 5/18/13: Frogs and tomatoes and snakes, oh my!
Sunday, August 4th
NYC Kossacks Meet-up
TIME: Noon
LOCATION: Spitzer's Corner
101 Rivington Street (Ludlow) • NYC
ORGANIZER: Send Sidnora a kosmail to RSVP.
RSVPs:
1. joanbrooker
2. mconvente
3. belinda ridgewood
4. Yasuragi
5. sidnora
6. Its the Supreme Court Stupid
7. blue jersey mom
8. kathny
9. ask
10. rubyr
11. plf515
12. thankgodforairamerica
13. No Exit
14. gchaucer2
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Maybees:
Ollie Garkey
Ian Reifowitz
andgarden
wader
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Latest diary: New York City Meetup - August - Choose your date
Saturday, November 2nd
SFKossacks BBQ in the Wine Country
TIME: TBD
LOCATION: Andrew McGuire's home in the Wine Country
Address to be given privately to RSVPs • Windsor
ORGANIZER: Send navajo a kosmail to attend.
Andrew McGuire is Executive Director of California One Care
RSVPs:
1. Andrew McGuire
2. navajo
3. Shockwave
4. Hunter
5. elfing
6. Hunter/elfling offspring
7.
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Send navajo a kosmail if you post a diary about an event so we can update our round-up.
Okay. Floor's open.
Tell us what you are doing on this NEW DAY?